We are not unified intelligences — we are collectives of agents, with dissociative alters, hemispheres with discordant preferences, and cognitive modules with cross-purposes, just as AI systems are.

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• All intelligences are collectives and all individuals are collectives; individual and collective intelligence are not categorically distinct but unified by connectionist principles.claim0.846
• All intelligences are collectives; individual intelligence arises from interaction of many unintelligent components (neurons) arranged with right organization and connections.claim0.842
  Foundational claim dissolving distinction between individual and collective intelligence by recognizing brains as archetypal intelligent collectives.
• All intelligence is collective intelligence: each of us consists of a huge number of cells working together to generate a coherent cognitive being with goals, preferences, and memories that belong to the whole and not to its parts.claim0.842
  Core interpretive thesis of the paper.
• All known cognitive agents are collective intelligences, because we are all made of parts; biological agents in particular are not just structurally modular, but made of parts that are themselves agents in important ways.concept0.835
  Load-bearing opening statement establishing core TAME principle of nested, distributed agency.
• All intelligence is collective intelligence—not just termite mounds and beehives. We too are emergent beings supervening on a collection of cells which all were once independent unicellular organisms.concept0.831
  Load-bearing statement capturing the core philosophical reorientation of the paper: recognition that human cognition is fundamentally collective.
• All intelligences are collective intelligences (higher-level selves composed of competent parts); implies distributed consciousnessfinding0.829
  Empirical consequence of multiscale autopoiesis: bodies are multi-tissue assemblies with similar dynamics in organs as in brain.
• All intelligences are collectives; individual intelligence arises from the interaction of many unintelligent components arranged in the right organisation.claim0.827
  Foundational claim positioning brains as archetypal intelligent collectives.
• We explore the hypothesis that collective intelligence is not only the province of groups of animals, and that an important symmetry exists between the behavioral science of swarms and the competencies of cells and other biological systems at different scales.hypothesis0.813
  The paper's guiding hypothesis, explicitly stated in the abstract and introduction.